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16:42, 12 April 2005

Newspaper sale ban lifted

Banned a while ago, the sale of opposition newspapers starts again on the Baku underground.

15:40, 11 April 2005

Who really suffers

Two underage children and one adult suffer because of explosions, another man dies.

15:38, 11 April 2005

Religious body handles conflict

A commission of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Dagestan investigates the reasons for a religious conflict in Derbent.

15:34, 11 April 2005

Detainees still missing

The destiny of three abducted Chechens remains unknown.

15:11, 11 April 2005

Commando wounds taxi driver

A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer uses a rubber-bullet gun to punish a cheeky taxi driver.

14:29, 9 April 2005

Deaths, wounds, surrenders in Chechnya

The dynamics on 8 April rather indicate <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/789102.html" target="_blank">Memorial's figures</a> are really incomplete.

14:40, 8 April 2005

Two released, one confirmed as dead in Chechnya

A local resident with mental disorder is confirmed as killed during a passport check operation on 6 April.

14:30, 8 April 2005

Memorial registers 3101 deaths in five years

Which may be just one-third of or fewer than the actual number of civilians killed in Chechnya since mid-2000.

14:16, 8 April 2005

Mines kill 100 in Azerbaijan

People continue to die in spite of the ceasefire.

13:59, 7 April 2005

Creepy pattern

Five Chechens are abducted within a few days with almost the same abduction pattern everywhere.

13:50, 7 April 2005

Village 'cleaned-up' since mid-March

A passport check operation leads to at least two people killed.

13:47, 7 April 2005

Meskhetians vote for homeland

Most Meskhetian Turks polled in two districts in Azerbaijan are willing to return to Georgia.

13:31, 6 April 2005

Women's rights violated in Georgia

Several service women are discharged from the Georgian army while on maternity leave.

12:48, 6 April 2005

War on innocents

A five-year-old child is killed in a special operation in Dagestan.

12:12, 6 April 2005

Just camouflage

One man is killed and two are abducted in Chechnya.

12:32, 5 April 2005

Maskhadov may have been trapped 'internationally'

There is some evidence Germany and Switzerland may have been involved in trapping the Ichkeria president Aslan Maskhadov.

12:28, 5 April 2005

Ridiculous ban

Azerbaijan's government persists in preventing a rights advocate from going abroad, although it cannot prevent his report from being delivered to the UN Commission on Human Rights.

12:17, 5 April 2005

Chechnya struck with unemployment

The republic's economy is reconstructed too slowly, as 80% of the population remains jobless.

12:06, 4 April 2005

More arbitrary detentions

Law enforcers continue to detain local residents adding to thousands of abductions that plague Chechnya.

11:52, 4 April 2005

Occasional casualties

An officer in Chechnya kills a soldier 'through carelessness.'

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